Introduction

Listeners have requested a list of LibriVox recordings of books recommended by Ambleside Online for use with homeschooling. Anyone looking for audio books for children will find plenty of ideas on this page.

This is the fourth part, covering year 10. The first part, covering years 0 - 4, may be found here. The second part, covering Years 5 - 8, may be found here. The third part, covering Year 9, is here. The fifth part, covering Year 11, is here.

The lists here only include books on the main booklists on Ambleside Online, not the various personal recommendations. If you would like to browse all LibriVox recordings of books, stories and poems for children, please follow this link for fiction and this link for non-fiction.

Please note that many books on the Ambleside list are not in the Public Domain, and are therefore not available to record for LibriVox.

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In the Public Domain, but not yet recorded

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleText at ccel.org. Warning: this is huge.The Cambridge history of English and American literature published 1907–21. Should be PD, but bartleby.com have parked a copyright notice on their text..Narrative of a recent journey of six weeks in Ireland by William Bennett. Book scan on Internet Archive.Diary of A Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon. Book scan on Internet Archive.A woman's wartime journal; an account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner LuntBook scan on Internet Archive.Leaven for Doughfaces or, Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery. By a former resident of the South. Author: Darius Lyman. Book scan on Internet Archive.The heir of slaves; an autobiography by William Pickens. Book scan on Internet Archive.
Disraeli's speech on the Reform Bill. Text on Hansard. (Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech).The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay. Text on Project Gutenberg.From pioneer home to the White House: life of Abraham Lincoln; boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death by W. M. Thayer. Book scan on Internet Archive.
The life of Florence Nightingale Book scan of Vol. 1. Book scan of Vol. 2 on Internet Archive.
Biographies of Michael Faraday. Search on Internet Archive.Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen (Victoria) by Sarah Tytler. Text of Vol. 1 and Text of Vol. 2 on Project Gutenberg. Great Britain and Her Queen by Anne E. Keeling. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt. Text on Project Gutenberg.Beacon Lights of History by John Lord. Text of Vol. X; Text of Vol. XII; Text of Vol. XIII; Text of Vol. XIV on Project Gutenberg. Vol. XV not yet online.Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin. Text on Project Gutenberg.English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. Marshall. Text on Project Gutenberg. A student's history of American literature by William Edward Simonds Book scan on Internet Archive.On the Art of Writing by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Text on Project Gutenberg.ReconstructionText on Project Gutenberg. An Appeal To Congress For Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass. Text at online-literature.com. The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays (1915) by John Erskine. Book scan on Internet Archive.Books and Bookmen by Ian Maclaren. Text on Project Gutenberg.Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy: True Functions of Government, The Reserved Rights of the People, The Despotism of the Majority, The Morals of Politics. Text at Library of Economics and Liberty.
Various editions of Euclid's ElementsSearch Internet Archive.Book of Insects by J. Henri Fabre. Book scan at Hathi Trust.Bramble-Bees and Others by J. Henri Fabre. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Life of the Caterpillar by J. Henri Fabre. Text at Eldritch Press.The Life of the Fly, With Which Are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography by J. Henri Fabre. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Mason-Bees by J. Henri Fabre. Text on Project Gutenberg.More Hunting Wasps by J. Henri Fabre. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by J. Henri Fabre. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Bible in Spain by George Henry Borrow. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Daisy Chain, or, Aspirations by Charlotte Yonge. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Trial: More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte Yonge. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr. Text on Project Gutenberg.Miss Tempy's Watchers by Sarah Orne Jewett. Search Internet Archive.The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott - East Lothian, 1695. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott - Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott - The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites). Text on Project Gutenberg.Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott - Time of George II. (Porteous Riots) Text on Project Gutenberg.Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott - Time of George III.
Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott - Time of George III. Text on Project Gutenberg.The Surgeon's Daughter by Sir Walter Scott - Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780). Text on Project Gutenberg.St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott - Near Firth of Forth, 1812. Text on Project Gutenberg.

Not in the Public Domain

Knowing God by J.I. Packer.The Attributes of God by A. W. Pink.The Great Democracies by Winston Churchill.Oxford Book of American History by Samuel Eliot Morison. A History of the American People by Paul Johnson.A Basic History of the United States by Clarence B. Carson.A Short History of Western Civilization by Sullivan et al.Arguing About Slavery, The Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller.Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Alexander Brown .Virginia's General - Robert E Lee and the Civil War by Albert Marrin.Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This? by Richard Maybury.The Law (1848) by Frederic Bastiat (modern translations still in copyright).The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as the Basis for Public Policy by Thomas Sowell.Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell.Character is Destiny by Russell Gough.One Blood by Ken Ham, Carl Wieland; Don Batten.The Deadliest Monster by Jeff Baldwin.How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer.Thinking Like a Christian: Understanding and Living a Biblical Worldview: Teaching Textbook.
Essays by C.S. Lewis.How to Read a Poem by Burton Raffel.The Book on Writing: the Ultimate Guide to Writing Well by Paula LaRocque.Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar by Nancy Wilson.
Jensen's Grammar.The Little, Brown Handbook by H. Ramsey Fowler and Jane E. Aaron.Writers Inc.
Most of the recommended Science and Mathematics books.The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre.How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren.The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn.How to Read Slowly by James Sire.The Story of Painting by H. W. Janson.The History of Art by H. W. Janson.The Arts by Hendrik Van Loon.Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Paul Brand.
All the Life and Work Skills books.The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin.A Lantern In Her Hand, A White Bird Flying, Mother Mason by Bess Streeter Aldrich.Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.
Nearly all books by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Most books by P. G. Wodehouse.